Climate activists jubilant as expansion of Britain's Heathrow Airport blocked
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The planned expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport was declared unlawful on environmental grounds by a court on Thursday, a ruling that could sink the $18 billion project that has been dogged by decades of dispute and indecision.